Next GT-R? Nissan unveiling new supercar in Gran Turismo 6

Mystery ride will be revealed on June 10, 2014.

You think of car culture, and you think the Friday-night cruise at the local DQ, or Cars & Coffee, or test-and-tune nights, etc. All are real-life experiences that let you celebrate that shared passion with other like-minded car nuts. But the culture is always evolving, and in the years since its debut on the original Playstation in 1998, Kaz Yamauchi's Gran Turismo series has become an important part of it.

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So important, in fact, that automakers have lined up to introduce all-new concept cars to the masses via the brilliant Vision Gran Turismo Program. And now Nissan might be taking it another step further. The automaker posted this image and status update to its Facebook page this morning:

It's definitely NOT next year's Nissan GT-R LM NISMO Le Mans prototype. The shape under the sheet is wrong, since the only images of the LM NISMO show it also under a sheet. Easy comparison. Moving on ...

What we're probably looking at is Nissan's Vision Gran Turismo entry—Nissan is signed onto the Vision GT program and hasn't yet revealed its car. Attempts to pry info out of people in the know were unsurprisingly futile, but the nugget we were able to pull from a source was, "well, there sure are a lot of GT-Rs in that photo."

Here's the prediction: Since the current Godzilla is extremely long in the tooth, the Nissan VGT car will carry a GT-R moniker and preview, however loosely, Nissan's next-generation supercar. Bet on its virtual powertrain being a high-performance hybrid setup, too, as we know Nissan has already dropped hints about taking the GT-R in that direction.

This won't be the first time a GT-R teaser made it into the GT series. You may recall that both the 2001 Nissan GT-R Concept and 2005 GT-R Proto appeared as playable cars in Gran Turismo, as shown in the "rogue's gallery" image Nissan released this AM. The '01 car made its in-game debut in 2002's Gran Turismo Concept, which wasn't sold in the US. We got it later, when GT4 was released. The 2005 GT-R Proto made its Gran Turismo debut in GT5.